MOZAMBIQUE/TANZANIA : Tanzanian army secures border area in Cabo Delgado
Three hundred soldiers from the Tanzania People’s Defence Forces (TPDF) took up quarters at the end of last year in...
Month : February 2023
WEST AFRICA : West Africa ponders choice of next UNOWAS head
Who will replace Mahamat Saleh Annadif as head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS)?...
SPAIN/MOROCCO : Madrid and Rabat negotiate resumption of trade in Spanish enclaves
Despite being announced as imminent, the resumption of trade between Morocco and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, suspended in 2018, could still be...
ZIMBABWE : Tainted by its ties to tycoon Tagwirei, Kuvimba steps up mining at Ziscosteel
The public-private Kuvimba Mining House consortium, which took over the Ziscosteel mining and metallurgical complex in 2020, has given up on finding...
ANGOLA : Lourenço reshuffles security apparatus, but Fernando Miala keeps his job
A few weeks into his second term, President João Lourenço is continuing his purge at the top of Angola’s security...
GAMBIA : Despite Gulf funds, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation summit delayed again
The question is on everyone’s lips at the Jeddah headquarters of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), headed since 2021...
SENEGAL : The €150m battle to secure Senegal’s seas
Manar Sall, the boss of state-owned Société des Pétroles du Sénégal (Petrosen), received a high-powered delegation on January 12 in Dakar. Eric Blanc-Garin, CEO of...
AFRICA : Alassane Ouattara, Laurent Gbagbo, Emmanuel Macron, Teodoro Obiang, William Ruto, Dadju
Ivory Coast – Ouattara, Bédié and Gbagbo to meet in Yamoussoukro Will Alassane Ouattara and his predecessors, Laurent Gbagbo and...
AFRICA/FRANCE : Macron’s disgraced ex-security aide Alexandre Benalla sets up €85m holding company
While former security aide to French President Emmanuel Macron, Alexandre Benalla, who was sentenced in 2021 for assaulting a protestor...
